Glenn wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:47:39 +0000, Bastiaan Edelman wrote:
>
>> Adding to this wishlist: would be nice if files could be stored with
>> their original name... so no 69378546.gif but pistol-1.gif.
>
>The problem with that is:
>Many, many pages we visit on the net have files of the same name.
>back.gif, background.jpg, menu.png, etc, etc, etc...
>
>In addition:
>What about LFNs?
>
>left_side_01.gif
>left_side_02.gif
>left_side_03.gif
>left_side_04.gif
>left_side_05.gif
>left_side_06.gif
>left_side_07.gif
>
>All of these would be stored in the cache as:
>left_sid.gif
>(2 would overwrite 1, 3 over 2, 4 over 3, 5 over 4, 6 over 5)
>So that we would end up with only one file in the cache directory.
>
>Since none of them would match the name in the "img src=" tag...
>
>All of them would be 'red boxes' on the displayed page.
Opera for Win3.1 manages to sensibly rewrite both the image name and
the page source as 8.3 when saving a page with images. This can be
wasteful when several pages from the same site are saved in the same
directory, as re-used images are given distinct names. The solution,
and Opera's recommendation, is to save one page with images per
directory. This could allow pages from the same site to be moved into
the same directory with a good likelihood of images being re-used with
a sensibly designed site. It helps to have a Make Directory dialog
added to the File/Save menu e.g. by File-Ex from Cottonwood Software.
Re: Sam's cache-size experiments, Opera recommends a 4-5Mb limit on
cache size, and I've noticed unreliability (in Opera)when the cache
gets too large.
No need to shoot the messenger,
Jake
